Bach - Christmas Oratorio: Cantata #1 BWV248 - Mov. 1/9

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

"Weihnachtsoratorium" Cantata No. 1 (Am ersten Weihanchtsfeiertage) BWV246 for choir, soloists, 2 trumpets, timpani, 2 transverse flutes, 2 oboes, 2 oboe d'amore, strings, and basso continuo

No 1. Coro: "Jauchzet, frohlocket!"

Performed by Concentus Musicus Wien & the Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Featuring Christine Schafer, soprano
Bernarda Fink, alto
Werner Gura, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass
Christian Gerthaher, bass
Directed by Nicholas Harnoncourt

*Recorded in 2007

**The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachtsoratorium) BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 incorporating music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a now lost church cantata, BWV 248a. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript. The next performance was not until 17 December 1857 by the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin under Eduard Grell. The Christmas Oratorio is a particularly sophisticated example of the parody technique. The author of the text is unknown, although a likely collaborator was Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander).

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• baroque
• classical
• christmas
• oratorio
• johann
• sebastian
• bach
• nicholas
• harnoncourt
• Concentus
• Musicus
• Wien

[Pseudologic]

Weihnachtsoratorium!! Say anything about Christianity, but it generated so much beautiful art. It's a part of European heritage!

[Bulitproof1]

How can you people talk such garbage when you are listening to the most perfect music ever written. Why cant you just shut up!

[josuemmedina]

Excelente colección de música selecta has recopilado. Felicidades!!. Saludos desde la Ciudad de México.

[JP69P]

Excellent!

Now listened to three diiferent versions and each one certainly has its own unique sound and interpretation.

If I had to buy a CD, it would certainly be a difficult choice.

Jaco

[noligsky]

i like the stooges, the who, nirvana, sex pistols, prince, star wars, sesame st, football, orwell, the simpsons, whatever i want to like. oh, and to the moron that posted about 'man is the only species that cannot live in peace with other species', do some research mate. ants, chimps, leopards, and hundreds of other species regularly engage in inter species holocaust type stuff. we are just good at it. douche.

[skf2410]

@Pseudologic

Christian heritage in Europe is, I think, the main cause of its greatness not reached by other cultures, including mine.

Christian art and his inspirer: Jesuschrist, is an invaluable jewel must be recognized, protected and practiced.

Greetings from Inca's Culture: Peru

[steina12]

One of my Fav's stop your moaning about a man dead and gone and listen to his legacy, :D no malice in that statement

[JohnnyNorfolk]

Perfect and wonderful.

[ilovedisney84]

There we go with another random fight on youtube. Fighting on youtube is like the special olympics. yeah there may be a "winner" but you're all still retarded!! 0_o

[light4darkness]

@JennyFarlopez "what kind of mental juggling are you into that makes you think yours is special?"

google "James 1:27" for the Bible's definition of religion. then google "John 8:4-11" to get your answer to your stoning statement. Are you calling stupid the law that Jesus gave "love each other as I have loved you?"

Bach has everything to do with Jesus. If evolution is correct and we have a common ancestor with apes, why are they so retarded compared to humans? Let's euthanise monkeys/apes.